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� <br /> � USE AND VEGETATION: Most of this soil is cropped to corn, hay, soybeans, and small <br /> grains. However, significant areas are in pasture and forest. Native vegetation is mixed wet <br /> � prairie grasses and deciduous forest. <br /> DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Primarily in the southeast one-quarter of Minnesota in the <br /> � timbered, hilly, "gray° till region. Moderately extensive. <br /> MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota <br /> � SERIES ESTABLISHED: Hennepin County, Minnesota, 1969. <br /> REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are: mollic epipedon - <br /> � the zone from the surface to a depth of 40 inches (Ap, A, AB and Btg 1); argillic horizon - the <br /> zone from 24 to 46 inches (Btgl, Btg2,). Type location moved from Hennepin County, Mn. to <br /> Wright County, Mn., 11/96 to better exemplify the series concept. <br /> ! A somewhat poorly drained overwash phase is recognized that has 8 to 20 inches of colluvium <br /> over the original dark colored surface. <br /> � ADDITIONAL DATA: Refer to MAES Central File Code No. 785 for results of some <br /> laboratory analysis of this series. <br /> , KILKENNY SERIES <br /> The Kilkenny series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils that formed in a mantle <br /> � of clayey glacial till or flow till and underlying loamy glacial till on moraines. These soils have <br /> moderately slow permeability. Their slopes range from 2 to 35 percent. The mean annual <br /> � precipitation is about 28 inches. Mean annual air temperature is about 48 degrees F. <br /> TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs <br /> � TYPICAL PEDON: Kilkenny clay loam with a 15 percent linear sideslope on a glacial moraine <br /> in a pastured field. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.) <br /> � Ap--O to 9 inches; very dark brown (lOYR 2/2) clay loam, dark grayish brown (lOYR 4/2) dry; <br /> weak fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; about 2 percent gravel; moderately <br /> acid (pH 5.6); abrupt smooth boundayr. (6 to 10 inches thick) <br /> � Btl--9 to 19 inches; brown (lOYR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderately medium subangular blocky <br /> structure parting to moderately fine subangular blocky; firm; common fine and very fine roots; <br /> � few distinct very dark brown (lOYR 2/2) clay films on faces of peds; about 3 percent gravel; <br /> strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary. <br /> Bt2--19 to 38 inches; brown (lOYR 4/3) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure parting <br /> � to moderate medium subangular blocky; firm; common very fine roots; common distinct very <br /> dark brown (lOYR 2/2) clay films on faces of peds; about 5 percent gravel; strongly acid; <br /> � gradual wavy boundary. <br /> ' <br /> � <br />